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    The word 'Indiana' is Native American for 'Land of the Indians', yet less than 16,000 Native Americans live there.
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    More people in China speak English than in the United States.
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    There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”:
    tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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    The word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.'"
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    The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
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    There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month! Interesting tries from our readers: orange: door hinge, melange (French for mix) purple: hurtle, durple?, turtle month: once, bunth?, hunch
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    The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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    Beelzebub is Hebrew for 'Lord of the Flies'.
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